Company Description
Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online. Since 2006, we’ve grown to around 5,500 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 243 million users and their visitors worldwide. At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and collaborate. We operate in small teams that work closely together at a high level.
Although we’re already industry leaders in web creation and business, our work is nowhere near done. Our goal is to become the main engine of the Internet so we can create a more open web for all.
We believe solving complex problems starts by building strong infrastructure and platforms supported by engineers working with cutting-edge technology.
As a dev-centric company, we rely on testing, implementing smart feedback loops, measuring impact, and using “fail fast” methodologies to keep our high-scale traffic and advanced products in constant progress with a 99.99% uptime.
Job Description
We’re looking for a passionate and highly motivated Backend Engineer to join our Backend Engineering Guild at Wix, with a focus on the Wix Bookings product. In this role, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the development of a mature and robust platform that serves over 500K businesses worldwide. In your day-to-day, you will:
- Collaborate with the Wix Bookings team to design, develop, and maintain microservices and backend systems
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in line with best practices
- Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality software and continuous improvement
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, testing, and production environments
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our tools remain competitive
- Continuously learn and grow in the field of software engineering
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in backend development
- A strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
- Basic knowledge of one or more programming languages, such as Java, Scala, or Kotlin
- Understanding of web protocols, APIs, and microservice architecture
- An interest in learning new technologies and improving your skills
- Team player with excellent communication and problem-solving skills, fluent in Hebrew and English
Additional Information
We are Wix's Backend Engineering Guild. We provide integrated tools for microservice development within Wix to help improve developer productivity and best practices. These tools streamline the development process and reduce cognitive load allowing Wix Engineers to concentrate on their domain, architecture, and business logic. To handle high-scale traffic (over 500B HTTP requests per day) and 500+ daily deployments, our team of 500 Backend Engineers runs production across 19 distributed data centers and cloud vendors worldwide.